'Market scenes' on Serious Eats

The site of the Mercado San Juan has hosted a market in one form or another since pre-Hispanic times. Fittingly, the ingredients for sale are the building blocks of the traditional foods you see on the streets of Morelia: brightly colored guavas, pitayas, and tiny plums that will turn up in gaspacho de frutas (local fruit salad, topped with cheese and hot sauce); honey and sugar that will end up in the multitude of sweets for which the town is famous; and sweet corn, in varieties ranging from kernel to leaf, and even in fungus form. More